Sam Peckinpah's first feature film tells the story of an veteran Civil War Yankee officer Yellowleg (Brian Keith) who saves the cheater Turk (Chill Wills) in a card game, and together with the gunslinger Billy Keplinger (Steve Cochran), they ride to Gila City with the intention of heisting a bank.
Yellowleg has a war scar on the head due to a man that tried to scalp him and his has been on the trail of his attacker for five years.
When bandits rob a store, Yellowleg shoots against the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer Kit Tilden (Maureen O'Hara) and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the Apache country Siringo, where her husband is also buried.
Yellowleg calls Billy and Turk to escort Kitty through the dangerous land.


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Charles B. Fitzsimons
Production Company: Carousel Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Western
Contact Information: www.k-otic.com

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: DJ Drugless - - January 28, 2010
Subject: Use the OGG version
The online streaming version and/or the OGG video version seem to be fine though. I still haven't had the chance to see this one yet. Even on my old archaic CRT monitor, the OGG version is quite grainy. It would be fine for an iPod, though...